On this page I will attempt to describe my current, recent, and older projects for which I am a developer, designer, or have participated.

I am not currently available for other projects or to be employed (I’m happy with the work I do and the company for which I work). I am a member of several Seattle Meetup.com groups (MySQL, Web Technology, and PHP) and will be happy to discuss or troubleshoot with you at those meetings any technical problems you may have. Some information I’ll keep close to my heart as it’s either a trade secret, or I just don’t want to give away all my services. I’m sure you understand.

OSNAP.net

OSNAP.net stands for the Online Shows, News and Announcements Project.
From the OSNAP.net homepage:

We’re a promotion machine. Our core goal is to gain more exposure for you - whether you’re in a band, a soloist, a venue, a label, or even a radio show. Exposure to us means getting more fans out for your shows, buying your songs/albums, and tuning in.
The whole idea started in 1998/1999 when our founder, Chad Edge, got fed up by hearing about ‘the greatest show ever’ - that of course happened last night! So Chad, with the help of some great developers, marketing minds, and supporters starting building OSNAP.net.
OSNAP.net is a massive gateway (now over 69,000 bands in our system) where anyone can publish and distribute upcoming live show information.

There’s a great write-up about OSNAP.net over at the OSNAP.net Web site.

Magstand

Magstand has been announced. Magstand is a new application that allows subscribers to print magazines a better way to manage their subscriptions. Find what you want, and find out what you want.

Fabel Headwear

Fabel Headwear is a Washington-based apparel company that makes some great hats. I’m excited to be working with them on their new Web site (coming end of December, 2007). The new site will employ a lot of the technology from other sites (the Desolation Clothing style of product listings, blogging; and the OSNAP.net engine of course!), with some improvements that will make the experience that much better. Look for a link at the end of December.

FDO - archived

FDO stands for For Documentation Only, a music label in Naples, Florida. I have been involved with FDO for several years, assisting them with their Web site and some album releases (the art namely). Justine and I have done our best to help this small label gain as much success online and offline as we can. I highly recommend taking a look at their music, maybe even attending one of their live shows (I should mention their live shows are OSNAP.net enabled).

GITP - archived

GITP stands for Get Into The Pit, a (now defunct) radio show hosted by Vince Perfino (Real Rock Vince as he’s known) in Fort Myers, Florida. I have done my best to help Vince while on-air to promote live events in the SW Florida area as well as host contests and promotions for his radio show.
While his station restructures, we all hope that Vince will be back on the air with his award-winning show.

The Romantics - no longer affiliated

The Romantics are an amazing band you may very well know (one of their hits is currently in the top-five best selling Hallmark music cards). Their 80’s hits “What I Like About You” and “Secrets That You Keep” had me rocking around the roller rink as a child, and are still two songs I play often on my iPod.
Recently, The Romantics asked Justine and I (Justine handles their graphic design for flyers, posters, postcards and other media) to redesign The Romantics Web site and MySpace.com pages. We’re both very proud to be part of The Romantics team and thoroughly enjoy seeing them perform live.

Even for being known as an 80’s band, I must recommend you check out their more current material, especially “One in a Million,” which you can find on their MySpace.com page.

Ross Home Builders and Ross Brokerage - archived

Ross Home Builders, and Ross Brokerage are two companies headed by a good friend of mine in SW Florida. While I’ve long since moved from Fort Myers, I still look at the home designs that Ross Home Builders offers and sometimes wonder why I pay so much to live in Seattle when a 4 bedroom home with vaulted ceilings (on the water no less) sells for less than $400,000. Perhaps it’s the hurricanes, or the job market, or the fact that I love my coffee shops, my career, and actual seasons.
Regardless of my own reasons, Ross Home Builders and Ross Brokerage are great companies and I’ve done my best to help them with their Web sites. If you’re in the market for a new home, or an investment property, Ross Home Builders can probably help you out. From what I understand, some of their customers buy the homes as their own, and many buy from out of state as investment property (multi-family duplexes, etc). With the Florida real estate market being as strong as it has in the past years, I wouldn’t be surprised if RHB (as I call them) keeps the success going.

Desolation Clothing

Desolation Clothing is a Northwest Snow, Skate and other ‘extreme sports’ clothing maker. Owned in partnership with professional snowboarder TJ Vankatwijk and Patrick Corcorran (Justine’s brother), the Desolation Clothing team has made some amazing apparel for youth.
Pat and TJ have asked Justine and I to redesign the Desolation Clothing Web site, and we’ll be happily launching by mid to end of December, 2006. They have a Web site online now, and I highly recommend you check out their clothes as well as their list of shops where you can pick up these one-of-a-kind designs (created by Justine!)

Elbasha Cafe

Elbasha Cafe is my favorite place to grab a cup of coffee and have an amazing conversation with my good friend and brother, Mahmood. Elbasha Cafe is located on the corner of Western and Wall in Belltown (just a couple blocks from my home) and for some time was just doors from my place of work. Mahmood makes some of the best sandwiches, food, and of course coffee I’ve had in Seattle (that’s a tall order, I know), and we’ve talked for hours on nearly every topic under the sun.
Mahmood and his brother Gary asked that I help with their Web site back in 2005. I’ve done very little as far as development for them, just trying to keep the site online (I’ve hosted the site since 2005 for them). Please take a moment to visit their Web site.
If you are in the neighborhood, I recommend you check out the coffee shop and the constantly changing art (from local artists) that hangs on their walls.

Fresh and Tasty Design

The personal Web site of my wife Justine Corcorran, as well as the future home of her design portfolio. Justine is an amazing designer, a Cornish College of the Arts graduate (with honors, 2004), and the perfect match for the rest of my life as my wife and best friend.

PDF repository search and management

The Pandora project is a way to assist page managers in finding archived PDF’s of printed pages, ftp them to vendors and download files in batches. The system employs LDAP via PHP, FTP, ZIP, and some conversion (from PDF to JPG for instance). The final product will allow managers to request new pages be generated from a page layout management software system.

Multi-sport score-tracking system

The multi-sport system is a project I’m currently involved with at my place of employ. I talk often about the technical headaches of keeping track of many different sports using different database platforms, export methods, and server-side coding languages. The sports scoring system is not a public product, and I do not intend to share a demonstration as it’s a proprietary system. I will, however, from time to time discuss issues I’m having and will ask for assistance (for instance, I recently had to grapple the idea of converting our database from handling team A vs team B scoring methods, to being able to handle multiple teems playing in concert or against each other - a melee scoring system in other words).

Multi-database/format image server

As with the multi-sport scoring system, the multi-database/format image server is a private product from my employer. I’m proud of the work I’ve done in creating an asset delivery tool that uses heavy Javascript and n-tier architecture. I’m especially proud of the speed improvement of my system over the desktop applications that users were forced to maneuver.
Again, I will not be sharing this system with the public, but I have in the past asked technical questions regarding its use (most recently, how to handle a drag-and-drop interface of assets in a browser that will force a multi-page printout or PDF using only Divs). It’s fun work, and challenging as well.

Contest management system

The contest management system will allow my employer to quickly deploy online contests to their shared Web servers. The system is built similarly to the image server (modular,  built with components that allow for easy portability and translation to other hardware/software combinations). This application will be hosted both behind the corporate firewall, as well as contest forms and services hosted outside on the public Internet.
This has become one of my favorite products to develop.

The Whisky Bar (Web site)

www.thewhiskybar.com is one of my latest undertakings. While not the most technical of sites (nor design-heavy) I am including several advancements in code to this Web site:

1. Photo sharing
2. Advanced blogging tools
3. A dash of AJAX - appropriate, I promise!
4. A little bit of fun for me